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       The Battle of Kunersdorf occurred on 12 August 1759 near Kunersdorf (now Kunowice, Poland) immediately east of Frankfurt an der Oder. Part of the Third...
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    of Russia and Austria to follow up their victory over him at the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759 during the Seven Years' War. The name is sometimes...
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    of Berlin, Frederick joined with the survivors from the Battle of Kay and on 12 August attacked the Russian position around the village of Kunersdorf...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz (category Generals of Cavalry (Prussia))
    Imperial left flank at the Battle of Leuthen. Seydlitz was wounded in battle several times. After the Battle of Kunersdorf in August 1759, he semi-retired...
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  • following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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    1759 (redirect from Year of Victories)
    Ferdinand IV. August 12 – Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults, by the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and...
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    the Battle of Torgau, but he suffered very heavy casualties, and the Austrians retreated in good order. Meanwhile, after the battle of Kunersdorf, the...
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    Ernst Gideon von Laudon (category Imperial military personnel of the War of Bavarian Succession)
    Russian allies as timid as they had been after Kunersdorf, and all attempts against Frederick's entrenched camp of Bunzelwitz failed. He brilliantly seized...
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  • had it not been for his early death by wounds suffered at the Battle of Kunersdorf. His father Peter outlived him, so the dukedom was passed on from...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (category German military personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    at the Battle of Kunersdorf. In the same year, he was appointed deputy quartermaster at the general headquarters. In 1761 he became adjutant of the Major...
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    Austro-Prussian rivalry (category Foreign relations of Prussia)
    him at the 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf. Frederick, on the brink, was saved by the discord among the victors in the "Miracle of the House of Brandenburg",...
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    Kunowice (redirect from Kunersdorf)
    after the Prussian defeat at the 1759 Battle of Kay. On 12 August 1759 at the Battle of Kunersdorf, the Prussian Army of King Frederick II was destroyed by...
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  • Kingdom of Great asia, Kingdom of asia, Kingdom of asia, Electorate of Brunswick asia, and other small German states on one side versus the Kingdom of asia...
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    Kingdom. Her first husband died in 1759 from wounds sustained at the battle of Kunersdorf. She later married Count Friedrich Detlev von Moltke, as her second...
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    recruited, half-trained soldiers, attempted to check them at the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August, where he was defeated and his troops were routed. Almost...
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    Army's initial success against one wing of the joint Russian and Austrian Armies in the Battle of Kunersdorf, Henry urged his brother Frederick to stop...
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    Silesian Wars (category War of the Austrian Succession)
    eastern Brandenburg culminated in a major Prussian defeat at the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August, but the victorious allies did not pursue the defeated...
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    catastrophic defeat on Frederick II himself in the Battle of Kunersdorf. The defeat at Kunersdorf left the Prussian army half-destroyed and the way to...
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  • defeats such as at Kunersdorf and Jena-Auerstedt. This article lists all the wars and battles in which Brandenburg-Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia were militarily...
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    Ferdinand IV. August 12 – Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults, by the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and...
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    into the Battle of Kunersdorf, barely surviving the disastrous cavalry charge that devastates the Prussian Army. He becomes the servant of Captain Potzdorff...
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    Pyotr Rumyantsev (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), those of Gross-Jägersdorf (1757) and Kunersdorf (1759). In 1761 he besieged and took the Pomeranian fortress of Kolberg...
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    Georg Ludwig von Puttkamer (1715–1759), Prussian general killed at Battle of Kunersdorf Gertrud von Puttkamer (1881–1944), German erotic writer Jesco von...
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    the town, it had 97 houses. A colony of the Moravian Church was founded in 1744. After the Battle of Kunersdorf, Neusalz was plundered on 24 September...
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    the Battle of Kunersdorf, an envoy in Hamburg, Constantinople, ambassador in Dresden, and governor of Saint Petersburg, involved in the development of New...
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    Alexander Suvorov (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    victory over Frederick the Great at the battle of Kunersdorf, after which the so-called Miracle of the House of Brandenburg happened. At the time when...
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    string of defeats and suffered large numbers of casualties. At times Prussia veered close to total collapse, notably after the Battle of Kunersdorf, was...
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    Pyotr Saltykov (category Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland))
    appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian army and would soon win victories at Paltzig (Battle of Kay) and Kunersdorf. In the latter he operated also...
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    19 18 17 Dresden 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 Prague 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Zorndorf, during the Seven Years' War, was fought on 25 August 1758 between...
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  • Friedrich August von Finck (category Prussian military personnel of the Seven Years' War)
    corps at the disastrous Battle of Kunersdorf, where he did good service both on the field of battle and in the rallying of the beaten Prussians; Frederick...
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